Bottle-crate-emptying machine.



F. TYSON.

BOTTLE CRATE EMPTYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED MAR.20. ms.

1,25,?4 Patented. Jan. 15, 1918..

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INVENTOR FRANK TYSON BY HIS ATTORNEY -F. TYSON.

BOTTLE CRATE EMPTYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.20. 1916.

1,2583%" Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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INVENTOR FRANK TYSON BY HIS ATTORNEY each of angular cross section,

FRANK TYSON, 01E CANTON, OHIOf BOTTLE-CRATE-EMPTYING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. .15, 19118..

Application filed March 20, 1916. Serial No. 85,365:

To all 'whbm it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Tyson, a citizen of the United States,residing in Canton, Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in BottleCrate Emptying Machines. of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to provide for the quick and safe removalof bottles from bottle crates, such as those used for the transportationof milk bottles, a further object being to provide for the delivery ofthe empty crates at a different point from that at Which the bottles aredelivered, and a still further object being to provide for the deliveryof the bottles in a single row.

These objects I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in wh1chigure 1 is alongitudinal section, illustrating the essential features of a bottlecrate with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line a-a, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of part of the machine looking in the samedirection as in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4: is an enlarged view of a modified form of bottle receiver.

In the drawings, 1 represents a shaft having thereon a crate carrierconsisting of suitably spaced disks 2 which are rotated by anyappropriate means, either continuously, or intermittently to the extentof a quarter turn at each movement. On the inner faces of these disksare secured emptying machine constructed in accordance crate receivers,comprising opposed bars 3, preferably and each presenting two membersone at a right angle to the other, as shown in Fig. 1, eachc ratereceiver being therefore open at its forward end. o

Extending from one disk to the other adjacent to the bars 3 are outerand inner racks 4 and 5, preferably composed ofwire, and

' having therein openings for the reception of inverted bottles dumpedfrom an inverted crate resting on the bars 3, the openings in the innerracks 5 being of less dimensions than those in the outer racks 4 so thata series of bottles dumped mouth down from a crate will be caught andheld by said racks, the contracted mouth portion of the bottles passinfreelythrough the openings inboth racks, at said bottles being caughtand held as shown in Fig. 2,-

by engagement of their tapering necks with the Wires of the inner rack5.

In front of the machine is a rock shaft 6 carrying a loading shelf 7,rocking 'movement to the extent of a quarter turn being imparted to saidshaft 6, as hereinafter described, so as to carry the shelf from theposition shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1 to that shown by full lines insaid figure, the shelf, when in the position shown by dotted lines, Fig.1, receiving a bottle crate from the adjacent roller table 8 and, as itswings from such position to that shown by full lines in Fig. 1,delivering said crate onto a crate re ceiver formed by opposite bars 3on the crate carrier disks 2.

As soon as the crate, on the forward move ment of the carrier. reachessuch a position that the bottles will slide or drop therefrom by gravitysaid bottles will be discharged, mouth inward, into the racks 4 and 5below the crate and will be held by said racks during the furtherrotation of the carrier until they finally reach the point of discharge.

When the crate reaches the top of the machine the bottles will have beencompletely discharged therefrom and held by the racks 4: and 5 and when,on the further rotation of the crate carrier, the crate reaches the delivery side of the machine it will slide from the carrier onto aninclined delivery chute 9 by which it may be directed to any suitablepoint.

At the crate delivering side of the machine is a segmental guide plate10 and as the bottle carrying racks 4 and 5 pass from the verticalposition shown at the right hand side of Fig. 1 to the horizontalposition shown at the bottom of said figure, the bottles will slide fromthe racks until their brittoms strike the segmental guide 10, which willthus serve to retain them in the upright position during the furthermovement of the carrier, until each row of bottles reaches the end ofthe guard plate 10, whereupon the bottles of the row will drop, mouthup, onto a transversely traveling 'conveyer 11 below the crate carrier,this conveyer moving at such a rate of speed that, between the deliveryof successive rows of bottles thereto, it will have carried the firstrow out of the way of the next, so that the bottles, as delivered by theconveyer 11, will be disposed close together in a single row.

Any desired means may be employed for rocking the shelf 7 so as to causeit to operate in unison with'the movements of the carrier disks 2. Inthe present instance I have shown the shaft 6 as provided with an arm 15which is connected by a rod 16 to an arm 17 on a shaft 18, the latterhaving a wheel 19 which is connected by a belt 20 with a wheel 21 on theshaft '1, the wheels 19 and 21 being, by preference, sprocket wheels andthe belt 20 a chain belt, so as to provide for positive operation of theshaft 18 from the shaft 1, the relative sizes of the sprocket wheels 19and 21 being such that the shelf 7 will be swung from the position shownby full lines in Fig. 1 to the position shown by dotted lines in saidfigure, and back again,

during a quarter turn of the disks 2.

Bottle receivers each consisting of a plurality of racks spaced apartfrom one another, whileipreferred, are not essential to my invention,and in Fig. 4 I have illustrated a modified form of bottle receiverconsisting of a single rack 5" having cups 13 thereon for'receiving thetapering necks of the bottles and preventing lateral tilting of thesame.

I claim:

1. The combination, in a bottle crate emptying device, of a cratecarrier having a receiver for the filled crate, means for moving saidcrate carrier so as to invert the crate and discharge the bottlestherefrom mouth down, a bottles are discharged from the crate, and meansfor inverting said bottle receiver so as to discharge the bottlestherefrom mouth up.

2. The combination, in a bottle crate emptying device, of a cratecarrier having a receiver for the filled crate, means formovingsaid'crate carrier so as to invert the crate and discharge thebottles therefrom mouth down, a bottle receiver into which the bottlesare discharged from the crate, means for inverting said bottle receiver'so as to discharge the )oottles therefrom mouth up, and a travelingconveyer for receiving the discharged bottles.

3. The combination, in a machine for emptying bottle crates, of a cratecarrier having a' receiver for the filled crate, means for moving saidcarrier so as to invert the crate -and discharge the bottles therefrom,a

bottle receiver in which the bottles are disposed in parallel rows, andmeans for discharging the rows of bottles in succession from saidreceiver.

4. The combination, in a machine for bottle receiver into which theemptying bottle crates, of a crate carrier having a receiver for thefilled crate, means for moving sa1d carrier so as to mvert the crate anddischarge the bottles therefrom,

a bottle recei verin which the bottles are disposed inparallel rows,means for discharging the rOWS .of bottles in succession from saidreceiver, a carrier for receiving said successive rows of bottles, andmeans for moving said carrier so that each row of bottles will be out ofthe way of the next.

5. The combination, in a machine for emptying bottle crates, of a earnerhaving a receiver for the filled crate, and a receiver for the bottles,means for moving said carrier so as to invert the crate and dischargethe bottles therefrom intothe .bottle receiver, and then continuethemovement, and

means for retaining the bottles in said bottle receiver while thecarrier is moving to a bottle discharging point.

i 6. The combination, in a machine for emptying bottle crates, of acarrier having a receiver for the filled crate, and a receiver for thebottles, means for moving said carrier so as to invert the crate anddischarge the bottles therefrom into the bottle receiver and thencontinue the movement, a

segmental guard plate for maintaining the bottles mouth down through theopenings of one rack and into the openingsof the other rack of thebottle receiver, the latter rack engaging the necks of the bottles andpreventing their further downward movement, and means for afterwardinverting the bottle receiver so as to permit of the discharge of thebottles therefrom mouth upward.-

In testimony whereof, I have signedmy name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK TYSON. Witnesses:

' 'KA'rn A. BEADLE,

HAMILTON" D. TURNER.

for receiving the bottles as they drop

